
Theme: Resilience by Design
ICOR’s 2025 monthly webinars are focused on different strategies to increase the resilience of the organization’s operations. This is often called “Operational Resilience”. Back again year! Due to its popularity, participants have the opportunity to earn their Resilience by Design “Badge” by attending a minimum of 10 sessions of the learning series either live or on-demand.
ICOR Webinars are offered live and are available on-demand on both our website and on the ICOR YouTube Channel.
Each webinar is worth 1 continuing education hour. All webinars are scheduled for 12:00-1:00 PM CST / GMT 06:00 unless otherwise noted. Attendees who attend for a minimum of 35 minutes receive a certificate of attendance for 1 Hour / .1 CEU.

Resilience by Design
Determining the context of your resilience strategy
February 26, 2025
Online
The organization’s resilience strategy is determined by where leadership wants to strengthen the organization. It should be a strategic, purposeful, and transparent approach that anticipates changes to the context in which the organization operates. This enables the organization to adapt to these changes, identify vulnerabilities, and address them in a timely manner.
Attend this webinar to learn about how to determine the context of your resilience strategy. We will also introduce the dimensions that should be considered as part of your resilience strategy.
Operating as an Agile Organization
Building agile and flexible systems
March 19, 2025
Online
Rapidly changing business conditions demand more flexible organizations. More resilient organizations operate in an agile manner that enables successful reactions to the emergence of new competitors, rapid advancements in technology and sudden shifts in overall market conditions.
Attend this webinar to learn how operating as an agile organization in agile teams is a tool for managing all aspects of the organization and increasing its ability to anticipate, adapt, act in a timely manner.
Increasing the Resilience of your Operations
Implementing a Systems’ Approach to Managing Risk
April 23, 2025
Online
Now more than ever, organizations need to review how they manage risk – how they anticipate and respond to threats and opportunities – and how to build systems that are prepared for both current and future (emerging) risks.
Attend this webinar to learn about implementing a systems’ approach to managing risk and how to coordinate and align those systems to ensure they are robust, diverse, and resourceful.
Understanding the Global Impact of the Digital Operational Resilience Act
(DORA)
May 21, 2025
Online
While the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act targets the financial sector, aiming to strengthen the cyber resilience of financial firms, the law also targets information, communication, and third-party technology services that offer critical services to the financial sector.
In this webinar, you will learn about how organizations can ensure compliance with DORA and potential global implications.
Increasing the Resilience of your Crisis Management & Communications Capability
June 18, 2025
Online
Understanding your organization’s crisis readiness involves understanding how it manages everyday issues or problems and how it determines thresholds for initiating a more formal response. An organization’s crisis response capability is also impacted by how well it integrates and coordinates the different parts of the organization responsible for responding to an incident.
Attend this webinar and learn how to ensure that your crisis management capability is inclusive, collaborative, and ensures that strategies exist to effectively analyze situations, make difficult decisions, and communicate to all relevant interested parties.
Increasing the Resilience of your Business Continuity Management System
July 23, 2025
Online
A business continuity management system ensures the capability of the organization to deliver products and services at predefined time-frames and capacity. Its purpose is to prepare for and to provide and maintain controls and capabilities for managing the organization’s overall ability to continue to operate under all conditions.
Attend this webinar and learn about how a BCMS supports the resilience of the organization and how it provides a critical role in operations.
Building Resilience of ICT Systems & Data Center Operations
August 20, 2025
Online
Traditional risk management is no longer an adequate activity to fully understand threats to critical environments such as data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them. With risks including increased demands to power land, and water, combined with supply chain disruptions, managing risk has become much more difficult. High-availability is now the expectation.
Attend this webinar and learn more about the new risk environment in data centers and the ICT infrastructure that supports them.
Increasing the Resilience of your Supply & Value Chains
September 17, 2025
Online
Over the past 5 years, both the supply chains and value chains have come under significant threats. With the focus of supply chain on operations and the focus of value chain on business, there is often a silo between the two systems. More resilient organizations ensure that strategies exist to manage supply and value chain risk, continuity, and security.
Attend this webinar to better understand the importance of managing risk and security to your supply chain and value chain and how to ensure the continuity of both.
Increasing the Resilience of your Security Systems
October 22, 2025
Online
Physical security of your organization’s premises impacts the safety of the people who work there and the organization’s productivity. The risks to physical security systems need to be considered through the perspectives of the organization’s stakeholders, external environmental conditions, equipment use, storage, maintenance, access and compliance.
Attend this webinar and learn about how to increase the resilience of your facilities by strengthening your security systems.
Considering the Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Your Operations
November 19, 2025
Online
Geopolitical risk is not new, but is at the forefront of global organizations today now more than ever. The context for managing divergent geopolitical viewpoints needs to be addressed and considered from several perspectives. Organizations need to take both defensive measures to mitigate the impact of geopolitical disruptions and also be proactive to foster resilience.
Attend this webinar to learn more about how to transform geopolitical challenges into opportunities for growth while strengthening resilience.
ITIL 4 & Risk Management
September 27, 2023
Online

Managing risk is an essential aspect of creating value in an IT service management (ITSM) environment. Implementing and controlling risk in an ITSM environment is not only a good business practice, it can also be a regulatory requirement.
Attend this webinar to learn about managing risk referencing the ITIL 4 Practice Guide (2020).
A Consulting FirmÕs Road to Resilience
August 23, 2023
Online

Yves Dvila shares how this consulting firm has implemented strategies to increase resilience. Yves is the Executive Director and Regional Leader of the business continuity practice at Protiviti Member Firm Peru SAC, a firm specializing in internal auditing, risk and business consulting.
Attend this webinar and learn how to implement strategies to increase resilience using an interactive question and answer approach.
Developing Leaders in Turbulent Times
July 26, 2023
Online

Leadership can make or break an organizationÕs future, especially in turbulent times. Few strategic challenges are more compelling than identifying, developing and properly positioning the leaders of tomorrow. Successful organizations embed leadership responsibility at all levels, and invest heavily in leadership development.
With the psychological and emotional role that leaders need to play if they are to optimize morale and productivity during turbulent times, it is more important than ever that organizations understand the four leadership behaviors that are critical during times of uncertainty and change.
Moving from Managing Risk to Strategic Resilience
June 21, 2023
Online

If itÕs taught us nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided the business case for leaders to move from defensive risk management to a forward-looking stance based on strategic resilience. The pandemic crisis has dramatically illustrated the short-sightedness of focusing on a small number of well-defined risks and the need to instead create a long-term strategy to successfully navigate in a world where there is a dynamic pace of change.
Attend this webinar and learn how to move to a broader mandate of integrating the risk function with other core functions to enable a more holistic resilience strategy.
The Role of Cross-Functional Teams in Building Resilience & Agility
May 24, 2023
Online

The coming together of minds from different teams and departments allows you to innovate, bring fresh perspectives, and strive towards shared goals. Relying on a single person or group of people to drive innovation excludes the input of different perspectives. Cross-functional collaboration drives progress across business units and departments.
Attend this webinar and learn how to use cross-functional teams to increase engagement, create a sense of purpose, and streamline work processes.
Managing Risk to the Data Center
April 19, 2023
Online

Traditional risk management is no longer an adequate activity to fully understand threats to critical environments such as data centers. With risks including increased demands to power land, and water, combined with supply chain disruptions, managing risk has become much more difficult. The increase in demand for ÒEverything as a ServiceÓ (XaaS) has also complicated this process.
Attend this webinar and learn more about the new risk environment in data centers and other critical environments.
Implementing a Unified Incident Response Structure
March 29, 2023
Online

An incident response capability can be applied to any function within an organization as well as when the incident requires shared response between organizations, between organizations and government, and between governments.
Attend this webinar and learn how to build an incident response capability that can be applied to any function and across multiple functions within an organization ensuring it operates as a single unified response system.
Managing Reputation Risk
February 22, 2023
Online

An organization in crisis faces many grave threats. Employees can be in physical danger. Buildings can fall. Customers can be lost. But the most serious threat is and always will be the threat to the organizationÕs most important asset Ð its reputation.
To protect the organization from reputation threats requires careful, thoughtful, detailed planning and a methodology for inculcating a culture of crisis preparedness.
In this webinar, you will learn how to prepare the organization for inevitable threats to reputation, execute the crisis communications plan, then, when the crisis has passed, assess and do what must be done before the next threats occur.
ISO 27001: 2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection – Protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of your organizationÕs information security assets
January 25, 2023
Online

The world is facing new evolving security challenges and the updated ISO 27001:2022 standard published in October 2022 reflects those challenges by aiming to protect the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of organizationsÕ information assets. The new versionÕs complete title is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Information Security, Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection.
Attend this webinar to learn about the changes to Annex A and updates of its clauses and how to use it to prove the strength of your security posture to prospects and customers in global markets.
Building a Crisis Management Capability
December 14, 2022
Online

A crisis management capability is required to manage the increasing challenges of leading organizations during times of uncertainty. Lessons learned after almost 3 years of managing the changes due to the pandemic, have taught us all the importance of having a strong crisis management capability.
Attend this webinar and learn how to increase your organization’s crisis management capability including what should be included in every crisis management and communication plan.
Understanding the Resilience of Your Community – Why Does it Matter?
October 26, 2022
Online

The global pandemic has demonstrated to us all the importance of resilience community systems. The resilience of your community – large or small – impacted businesses, social systems, health systems, goverments, and public services. And the resilience of each of these systems impacted the people who live there.
Attend this webinar to learn more about the social, environmental, and economic challenges faced by communities and what types of strategic initiatives community leadership should consider in order to ensure they are prepared to meet them.
Measuring Your Organization’s Resilience -Sneak Peak at ICOR’s Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment
September 21, 2022
Online

There is a lot of talk in the marketplace about resilience and how to increase the resilience of your organization, but much of it is focused on very narrow aspects – often as a sales pitch where the purchase of a specific product will solve all your problems.
ICOR’s Organizational Resilience Capability Assessment (ORCA) was developed to help leaders identify their organization’s strengths and weaknesses through a strategic lens and to provide a baseline for determining how to implement specific strategies to increase their capabilities.
Attend this webinar for a sneak peak at the ORCA tool and participate in a “short-assessment” of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses.